Identifying Alcohol Use Disorder in Patients With Cirrhosis Reduces 30-Days Readmission Rate.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Readmission is frequent among patients with cirrhosis and is a complex multifactorial process. To examine the association of alcohol use disorder (AUD) and risk of readmission in patients with alcohol-associated cirrhosis.

Methods and results

National Readmission Dataset (2016-2017) was used to extract a retrospective cohort of 53,348 patients with primary or secondary discharge diagnosis code of alcohol-associated cirrhosis with their first admission (26,674 patients with vs. propensity matched 26,674 without a primary or secondary discharge diagnosis code of AUD). Readmission within 30-day was lower (43.9 vs. 48%, P < 0.001) among patients identified to have AUD at the time of discharge. In a conditional logistic regression model, a diagnosis of AUD was associated wit

SUBMITTER: Singal AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9465529 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature